RESEARCH PROJECTS

Selected funded and collaborative research projects.

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Chieftaincy Institutions and Land Tenure Security: Challenges, Responses and the Potential for Reform

Type: Human Rights, Governance & Civic Action
Funder / Partner: World Bank; ISSER, University of Ghana
Role: Principal Investigator
Period: 2006
Examined how chieftaincy institutions influence land tenure security in Ghana, focusing on the challenges customary land institutions face, their responses to tenure insecurity and the potential for institutional reform.

Human Rights, Power and Civic Action (RIPOCA): Comparative Analyses of Human Rights-Based Approaches and Civic Struggle in Development Contexts

Type: Human Rights, Governance & Civic Action
Funder / Partner: Norwegian Research Council
Role: Co-Investigator
Period: 2009–2010
Investigated how struggles for human rights are shaped and constrained by power relations and structural inequalities, with a focus on rights organisations and civic action in Ghana within a wider comparative multi-country study.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Collective Action Movements in Africa

Type: Human Rights, Governance & Civic Action
Funder / Partner: The Rockefeller Foundation; Institute for Policy Alternatives
Role: Principal Investigator
Period: 2014–2016
Examined how collective action movements in Africa can be monitored, evaluated and understood, with particular attention to changing theories of change, mobilisation strategies, leadership and learning within social movements.